In article <[log in to unmask]>,
  Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
] The topic of message files and their recovery after a system
] failure was raised recently.  It occurred to me to ask:
]
]    What if MPE is changed to guarantee that message files are never
]    corrupted by a system failure, at the cost of always throwing away
]    pending messages if the file was open when the system crashed?
 
Thanks, but I prefer to take my own chances.  Remember the original
problem: a fault in the operating system caused it to stop.  Until the
cause can be determined, I don't trust the (now unreliable) system to make
any judgements of what should be kept.
 
Perhaps the old KSAM file model would be better.  If a system failure
occured and a KSAM file was open, it could not be opened again until dealt
with (KSAMUTIL generally).
 
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